On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:05:37 -0400, the infamous Wes
scrawled the following:

Larry Jaques wrote:

My current total is for raw material, screws, pins, spring wire, gears, and the reamers I
need. I remember this from a year and a half ago when I was buying stuff. What you want?
My invoices?

Nah. Hell, just send the kit so far. Got my address? gd&r

In your dreams

Indeed!


The wheels could be fun. The idea of shrinking a steel tire over a wheel sounds more
appealing than just putting a brass decorative strip on.

Drop by your library and pick up a copy of _The Wheelwright's Shop_ by
George Sturt. Wunnerful read. Elm's the ticket for hubs, or was.

My library doesn't have it. Then I did Amazon and one of the reviews said the one I was
looking at was the abridged version only containing the how-to's. I'll have to do some
research on this one. I'd like the how-to along with the stories that is in the original.

Someone stole the lone copy I read from this library, too, damnit.

Try eBay for these knockoffs: http://fwd4.me/u5
or
http://www.amazon.com/Wheelwrights-S.../dp/0521091950
$6.99 for the 1962 paperback.

http://isbn.nu/9780521065702 $6.75 for the 1974 hardcover.


We may have some elm, I remember uncle taking down some elm that he was worried would die
anyway, I'll have to ask what he cut it into. I know I don't have any here.

I believe he used the crotches for the hubs. They had the strongest
crosslinked cells of all the hardwoods they'd tried.

--
The blind are not good trailblazers.

-- federal judge Frank Easterbrook